Twitter, a popular micro-blogging/status site, is legendary in more ways than one. It is popular for its insanely large number of users (who tweet almost religiously), and also for frequent down times and scaling issues.
The scaling issues and down times deserve special attention, as it has not dented Twitter’s user base. Twitter usually displays a cool “we’re out for service” message and an associated image when it is down. We take a look at some of the best Twitter fail whale/bird messages. And while you’re at it, why not follow me on Twitter?
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Twitter fail whale
Here is an incredible pure CSS Twitter fail whale. If you have ever designed pages with CSS, you’ll understand how complex this is.
[Image credit: OracleApps Lab]
Twitter spam purge
[Image credit: Pearsonified]
Twitter fail bird
[Image credit: ValleyWag]
Twitter inverted bird
Twitter Robot and Bird
[Image credit: No Dependies No Logo]
As a bonus, here is one last image you should not miss:
GMail fail whale parody
[Image credit: TechCrunch]
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